Pavise

Pavise Icon of the Pavise skill in Awakening and Fates. Halve sword/lance/axe/beaststone/blight damage. Trigger % = (Skill stat)

Type(s) Class (in Genealogy of the Holy War, The Sacred Stones, Awakening, and Fates) Personal (in Thracia 776 and Radiant Dawn) Class (Mastery) (in Path of Radiance) Item (in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Special (in Heroes) Capacity 20 Game(s) Genealogy of the Holy War Thracia 776 The Sacred Stones Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn Awakening Fates Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Heroes

This article is about the skill known as Cancel in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. For the skill known as Cancel in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, see Cancel.

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Pavise (Japanese: 大盾 Great Shield), previously known as Great Shield and Cancel, is a combat skill debuting in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. In most appearances, when activated, it protects the user from a single attack by reducing or - prior to Awakening - completely nullifying the damage that would have been inflicted on them by that attack. The skill's activation rate has widely varied from game to game, as has its availability, but it is most commonly available to Generals and members of other advanced armored classes. Awakening and Fates have split its functionality in two and restrict Pavise to working only against physical attacks, while a new skill, Aegis, offers the same protection against magical and bow attacks; Echoes: Shadows of Valentia also splits its functionality with another skill, Earth's Kiss in this case, with Pavise reducing physical damage and Earth's Kiss applying to magical damage.

In Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, The Sacred Stones, Awakening, and Fates, Pavise is a class skill belonging to Generals and similar classes, and in Path of Radiance, Cancel is the mastery skill of the Hawk laguz. In Radiant Dawn, Pavise is a personal skill which can be equipped to any unit, while in Shadows of Valentia, it is an item skill associated with the Duma's Shield and Sage's Shield.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Genealogy of the Holy War		It nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(User's level)%	--	-
Thracia 776		It nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(User's level)%	--	--
The Sacred Stones	--	It nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Enemy's level)%	--	--
Path of Radiance		It nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Skill)%	20	--
Radiant Dawn		It nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Skill)%	20	--
Awakening		It halves the damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, Blighted Claws and Blighted Talons.	(Skill)%	--	Will not activate against a Dual Strike.
Fates		It halves the damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, monster attacks, and automaton attacks.	(Skill)%	--	Will not activate against a Dual Strike.
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia		It halves the damage dealt by physical strikes.	Command (Cost: 4 HP)	--	Requires 20 SP to learn.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Rarity req.	Cooldown	SP cost	Notes
Heroes		Halves damage dealt by adjacent foes.	4★	3	200 SP	Cannot be inherited to ranged units.

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors	--	May reduce damage dealt to user by swords, lances, and axes; chance increases with user's Luck.	--	--	--

Availability

Genealogy of the Holy War

Units (As a class skill)	Hannibal After promotion: Arden
Classes	General • Baron • Emperor

Thracia 776

Units (As a personal skill)	Xavier
Classes	Baron

The Sacred Stones

Units (As a class skill)	After promotion: Amelia • Gilliam
Classes	General

Path of Radiance

Units (As a class skill)	Tibarn
Classes (Occult)	Hawk

Radiant Dawn

Units	Tibarn
Items	Pavise

Fates

Classes

General (Learned from Level 15 and up)

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Items

Duma's Shield • Sage's Shield

Warriors

Learned	Frederick (requires Frederick's Pebbles ×3)
Borrowed	Requires ×1 each of Frederick's Essence and Frederick's Ribbon Tie

Trivia

• Pavise has appeared in all eight games in the main Fire Emblem series to feature a defined skill system and, as the only defined skill to appear in The Sacred Stones that didn't debut in that game, is the only skill with this distinction.
• In The Sacred Stones, Great Shield will never activate if the enemy is attacking with a poison weapon (Toxin Lance, Poison Sword). This was implemented to prevent special effects conflicts with the purple glow used by poisoned units and the yellow glow produced by Great Shield.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	• Great Shield • Cancel • Pavise	• This name is used only in The Sacred Stones. • This name is used only in Path of Radiance. • A pavise is a long shield of Greco-Roman origin which covers the user's entire body. This name is used from Radiant Dawn onward.
English (unofficial)	Big Shield	Used in the Thracia 776 fan translation patch.
Japanese	• 大盾 • 翼の守護	• Great Shield. This name is used in all appearances except Path of Radiance. Referred to as PAVIS in its internal file name in Radiant Dawn. • Romanized as WINGSHIELD in its internal file name in Path of Radiance; literally, "winged protection". This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
Spanish	• Pavés • Guardia	• Pavise • Guard. This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
French	• Protection • Négation	• Protection • Negation. This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
German	• Pavise • Abbruch	• As above. • Cancellation. This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
Italian	• Ultradifesa • Revoca	• Ultra-defense • Revocation. This name is used only in Path of Radiance.

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Pavise manual from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  Hannibal activating Pavise in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  Gilliam activating Great Shield in The Sacred Stones.

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  Janaff activating Cancel in Path of Radiance.

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  Meg activating Pavise in Radiant Dawn.

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  Kellam activating Pavise in Awakening.

See also

• Aegis
• Aegis+
• Pavise+
• Earth's Kiss

Special skills in Heroes

Area-of-effect skills Blazing Flame • Blazing Light • Blazing Thunder • Blazing Wind • Growing Flame • Growing Light • Growing Thunder • Growing Wind • Rising Flame • Rising Light • Rising Thunder • Rising Wind Defensive skills Aegis • Buckler • Escutcheon • Holy Vestments • Ice Mirror • Miracle • Pavise • Sacred Cowl Healing skills Aether • Daylight • Heavenly Light • Imbue • Noontime • Radiant Aether • Sol Offensive skills Aether • Astra • Black Luna • Bonfire • Chilling Wind • Draconic Aura • Dragon Fang • Dragon Gaze • Glacies • Glimmer • Glowing Ember • Iceberg • Ignis • Luna • Moonbow • New Moon • Night Sky • Radiant Aether • Regnal Astra • Reprisal • Retribution • Vengeance Staff specials Heavenly Light • Imbue • Kindled-Fire Balm • Solid-Earth Balm • Still-Water Balm • Swift-Winds Balm Miscellaneous skills Galeforce